The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Inc mlut8fy cOmmlCu0o OI tne lOWer uOuS6
of the Hungarian Diet has approved the
credit Of ,460, 600 florins asked by the Gov
eminent for national defense.
A panic has been caused in financial and
military circles at Cairo by the withdrawal
of the annual subvention Of e240, 900 for the
expenses Of the Egyptian army.
Twenty five thousand Of the rs, 600 pris-
oners confined in the jai!s throughout India
were released on the 10Th as an act Of Glenn
ency to commemorate the jubilee of Queen
Victoria.
The Austrian Government has introduced
a bill in the reichsrath appropriating $12,
0O0, 900 forms for the equipment of the land
Wehr and lapdsturm.
The English House OF Commons on the
10Th rejected, by vote Of 1876 to 253, the
motion of Mr.. Cameron, member for Glas-
gov, demanding an inquiry into the allega-
tions Of harsh and unjust administration
of the law to the crofters.
Five men, John Benton, Thomas Wood
ruff, julius Bagot, William Carver and
James Mccormack, were killed, and two
others were seriously injured on the 18th in
the Wilbur mines at Lavant, Ont, by fall
Of earth from the roof.
At Winnipeg, Man., the Judgment given
in the case of Thomas Blackstone, who
robbed the National Bank of Portland, Me-,
of $4,000, refuses the extradition of the
prisoner on the ground that the offense is
not forgery under the common law, but only
embezzlement. The prisoner was released.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says the con-
viction is rapidly gaining ground in Russian
Government circles that war between
France and Germany is inevitable.
An explosion in the Catch colliery at
Rhondda, Wales, on the 18th entombed
fifty-two miners. Twenty-nine were res
cued unhurt and eight were taken out in
jured. The rescue Of the remainder alive
was doubtful.
From the New Hebrides come reports
that the French are constructing three
forts, increasing the number Of troops, and
building new barracks at Port Sandwich.
LATER NEWS.
CAPTAIN UNeER, who killed August
Bohle, was sentenced to twenty years
hard labor at Sing Sing.
CoNeREss is approaching its close, with
1,I75 bills on the House calendar.
THE Grand Opera-house at Columbus, O..
was destroyed by fire on the morning o'
the Goth.
ARCHIBALD FORBES and George Augustus
Sala, famous newspaper correspondents
in England, think there will be no war be
tween Germany and France. France i:
not strong enough for Germany-in Other
words, though in fine fighting condition
comes under lghter-weight class.
"HApPY BoB'' VAN BRuNT, Of the Saliva
ton Army, was sentenced at Elmira, NJ
to hang on April Is, for the murder OF vii
Roy.
The Merchants National Bank of Dead
wood, Dak., has closed. Liabilities ant
| assets about n, 600 900.
LOOKOUT mountain, Tennessee, has beel
| purchased by syndicate, with the intel
| ton of making it pleasure resort.
Ina fight between Union bakers at Chi
cago, Albert Krenger, an Anarchist stab
bed Albert Kort with a knife that is SAT-
to have been poisoned.
| TIE Emery Opera-house, Titusville, Pa.
was totally destroyed by fire.
PAUL c. RUSSELL, st. Louis editor, wa
killed by train at Chicago.
THOMAS HOBBS, Evansville, Ind, has bee
given a life sentence for the murder o
Dant. Weller.
NORRIS HATFIELD, Bethany, Ind, shot hi
wife and then himself. They were well-to
do, but had quarreled. He has died. Sh
will recover.
A VILLAIN burglarized W. e. Snyder
house at Findlay, O., and then attempted t
blow up the place by turning on the ga
and filling the rooms.
In a.big rat hunt at Millersburg, O., thre
thousand tails were reported captured i
two weeks. Captain James Uhrs crow
won the day and big supper.
THE redemption of the trade dollar!
about seven millions of them, will be CON
menced as soon as the President puts hi
signature to the bill, which will be in
few days.
JOHN W. GILLESPIE, Of Mt. Airy, nea
Cincinnati, eighty-hve years old when
died, was buried by his five brothers an
nephew, aged seventy-eight, seventy-on
sixty-nine, sixty-seven and fifty-four r.
spectively.
ACTING SECRETARY FAIRcHnD issued
circular to constructors of passenger cal
and steamboats, inviting suggestions as
the best methods of building and heatin
to prevent loss Of life and property b
| fire.
AN Election Board at Scranton, Pa, hi
, been sent to Jail for tampering with Il
returns.